Mississippi Freedom Summer 64 50th Anniversary
"Antislavery meetings were the best schools in the nation." --Frederick Douglass "Where Do We Go From Here?"
WHEN: Monday, April 14, 2014 8:30am - 7:00pm
WHERE: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 515 Malcolm X Boulevard New York, NY 10037
Join Bob Moses, Freedom Summer 64 civil rights veterans and volunteers, Movement scholars and present- day activists in a day-long discussion of the continuing struggle for
Quality Education and Voting Rights
This program is sponsored by:
Mississippi Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement Howard University Law School Students New York University's Experiential Learning Lab Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, Northeastern University School of Law SNCC Legacy Project The Algebra Project Young People's Project Mississippi State Conference of the NAACP
"Where Do We Go From Here?" Quality Education and Voting Rights The Struggle for Constitutional Personhood for
Mississippi and the Nation
8:30am - 9:00am Welcome Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad Opening remarks Professor Peggy Cooper Davis and Bob Moses 9:00am - 9:45am Envisioning Freedom / Living Constitutional Personhood Visual evidence of the quest for constitutional personhood Presenter: Professor Deb Willis 9:45am - 10:45am "Stealing" Literacy Slave literacy as a tool of liberation and source of power Presenter: Professor Heather Williams Making a Public School System African American initiatives and coalitions to create free public schools in Mississippi. Presenter: Professor Christopher Span
10:45am - 11:00am BREAK
11:00am - 12:00pm Black Mississippi Votes How the black male vote was won - and lost - in Mississippi after the Civil War. Presenter: Professor Eric Foner
12:00pm WORKING LUNCH
12:00 - 12:45pm Black Mississippi Retakes the Vote 1960s voter registration campaigns, the Freedom Democratic Party, the Voting Rights Act and Shelby County. Presenters: NYU & Howard law students 12:45pm - 1:30pm Public Schooling in Mississippi After Reconstruction Presenters: NYU & Howard law students 1:30pm – 2:15pm Freedom Schooling Presenters: NYU & Howard law students
2:15pm - 2:30pm BREAK
2:30pm - 3:30pm Today's Struggles: Voting Rights after Shelby County Presenter: Myrna Perez 3:30pm - 4:30pm Today's Struggles: The Legacy of Violence Cold Cases from the Civil Rights Era and Restorative Justice Presenter: Professor Margaret Burnham and Northeastern students 4:30pm - 5:45pm Today's Struggles: Education Initiative on the 2015 Mississippi Ballot Presenters: Amber Thomas and Charles Taylor, One Voice
Today's Struggles: Quality Education and Voting Rights from Freedom Summer 1964 to Freedom Summer 2014 Presenters: Bob Moses and Derrick Johnson 5:45pm - 6:00pm Closing remarks